Water economy of granivorous birds: California house finches

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 493-503

  MacMillen, Richard E ^a,c   Hinds, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carpodacus mexicanus; Evaporative water loss; House Finches; Metabolic water production, water economy model

Indexed keywords

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; FRINGILLIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031926563     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369715     Document Type: Article

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